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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
you’d be hard-pressed to tell their nationality,” says Deshpandé. “Among other distinguishing characteristics, these firms tend to have intrapreneurial cultures that encourage and reward risk. They are quick to market and invest a lot in View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
organizations adopt these strategies, there may be tensions and multiple conflicting institutional logics. Additionally, we consider four strategic leadership topics and how they relate to platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies: (1) executive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
under the Hood: Wealth-based Discrimination in Illicit Customer Help Authors:F. Gino and L. Pierce Publication:Organization Science 21, no. 6 (November-December 2010) Abstract This paper investigates whether an employee's perception of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18
objectives. First, this format allowed us to combine the active student orientation typical of case-based approaches with the systematic construction of cumulative theoretical frameworks more characteristic of lecture-based methods.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
skill,” wrote Levitt, citing the railroads as one example of a business that lost its way. “They let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business rather than in the transportation... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-062.pdf September 2014 Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater Customer Experience and Service Design By: Karmarkar, Uday, and Uma R. Karmarkar Abstract—While services already... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
not increase the quality of employee-company matches but is associated with relatively higher employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (stores that serve repeat customers, stores that serve View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
in my vocabulary to raise money,” says Blakeman. “And that speaks to part of the problem. If you grow up in a place that’s not San Francisco or New York, you maybe don’t know a single person who knows that language. I was limited by what my mind could think to Google.”... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
in our sample had developed a strong, locally oriented culture. Examples include Cummins and Herman Miller. Their respective cultures were rooted in the values of the small towns in which they were headquartered. Building a global culture... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Stevenson. "Our entrepreneurially oriented executive programs, the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) and the Presidents' Seminar, which work with presidents of entrepreneurially oriented firms, rely... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
income between two organizations in similar businesses. It can be measured by the "Four Rs" of referrals and retention of employees, returns to labor, and relationships with customers that foster View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
less future-oriented behavior (Chen, 2013). Yet, research has not established how this mechanism may affect the future-oriented activities of corporations. We theorize that companies with strong-FTR languages as their official/working language would have less of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
learning capabilities intertwine with managerial cognitive capabilities to support the processes of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring. We draw from the literature on team learning to develop four categories based on the orientation... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
orientation of the "hierarchical industry leaders" can entail large missed opportunities for other members of the ecosystem, who are unable to fully exploit their potential in global markets. We argue that Japan has to adopt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
promoting these individuals when looking to fill executive jobs. Managing diversity is also one of the core competencies used to assess managers' performance, and it's included in the mandatory training and orientation of new managers... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
The big challenge is to communicate emotion-based intangibles in a market where consumers are oriented toward material things and getting value for their money. We're a big-ticket item, so we have to convey to the consumer the inherent... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
groundbreaking accelerator promoting financial inclusion and access to capital for early-stage, technology-enabled companies led by women and multicultural entrepreneurs. Young companies accepted to the program receive mentorship, access to networks, and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
company's strategic location in the China market, he would have to transform the company mindset and its operating structure from its roots in the manufacturing of DRAMs to the service orientation that was necessary to support the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne